Tom Farrell extended his unbeaten record to 8-0 with a comprehensive victory over London's Mark McKray at the Echo Arena on Saturday night.

It was a pretty one-sided affair under the Area lights, however, referee Phil Edwards scored the contest 59-56, handing one round to the visitor.

It was hard to see where that round came from but the fifth did see a spirited fightback from McKray.

Farrell was busy throughout, taking the first round with ease. A good left-right combination in the second stunned McKray, however, there just wasn't enough of those combinations from the Liverpudlian. An injury to his right hand may have been the reason for that.

Farrell may have been forced into throwing single shots and he did get a lot of joy with them in the third, with a heavy right over the top landing before a a left hook and right to the body worked a treat.

Farrell stepped up the pace in the fourth, delivering a wicked right, but once again failing to follow it up. He did enough to edge the round.

McKray may have edged the fifth but he knew he was well behind heading into the final round and it showed with his wild, unsuccessful swings to the head. Farrell was unperturbed in what was a decent performance to add another victory to that growing record.

Meanwhile, super-lightweight Ryan Mulcahy continued his impressive start to his young career as he saw off the challenge of Belfast's James Gorman.

Mulcahy was impressive in his second appearance at the waterfront venue, taking all four rounds on the referee's scorecard.

The former Knowsley Vale man stalked and harried his opponent and was the only boxer offering up much in the way of an offensive gameplan.

Gorman was bloodied in the second round and it didn't get much better for him as Mulcahy loaded up on the rights in the third.

The 26-year-old hometown fighter continued to press right up until the final bell. It was a fourth successive victory for Mulchay who will be out again later this month.

In the first contest of the night, Gerard Carroll got his professional career off to the perfect start with a faultless four round victory over Syrian-born Youssef Al Hamidi.

The former Salisbury ABC amateur controlled the bout from first bell to the last and was never troubled by the visitor.

Carroll put his left jab to good use, nullifying Al Hamidi's limited challenge from distance.

If the first three minutes were to feel his way into the fight, rounds two and three allowed the Liverpudlian to really get comfortable inside the ring; landing a good right to the body in the second before ending the round with a nice right hook to the head.

The 24-year-old landed a sweet right uppercut. Two further straight rights in quick succession gave Carroll a comfortable three round lead going into the final three minutes.

Despite his best efforts to end this early, the bout went the distance with referee Mark Lyson scoring it 40-36 in favour of the debutant from Liverpool.